Music&Chaos
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Hey all,
Have a Tele I am swapping picups and trying different wiring configurations in. I previously had this guitar running this no name hot ceramic neck pickup with a Gibson 498T uncovered. Vol/Vol setup with no tone. Extremely 'in your face'. A bit much overall. I had the neck pickup wired to a 270k ish pot and the bridge wired to a higher value like 450k.
Well, when i redid the wiring config, I went with a vol/tone and used one of the ceramic .033 caps that come in LPs from Gibson.
I was not thinking about it, and now the 498T is seeing that 275k pot, which honestly, is closer to what they ship with in older Gibson models, like what my studio had (300k).
I put an 'American Metal' Tele neck pickup in that is laying around for another build I haven't finished. (Beachcaster/driftwood)
These pickups works surprisingly well together, in that the volumes are not crazy imbalanced to a high degree. The 498T still gooses it just a bit, but not overwemingly so.
This combination works well for fun, high mid hitting rock rhythms and lead.
The lower value pots tame the extra intense high-mid nature the 498T can have sometimes, along with the .033 cap to focus it in a bit/tame them from a direct connection as it was before. High-mids and organic, can scream with harmonics.
A very fun tele overall for this sound - which is like a vintage rock/metal.
It's neat to find a wiring/pickup combination that balances like this with the 498T, as it can be a struggle in general. I figured a neck pickup would not be able to do it without it being a mini-humbucker/rail style or something, but it works pretty well.
Have a Tele I am swapping picups and trying different wiring configurations in. I previously had this guitar running this no name hot ceramic neck pickup with a Gibson 498T uncovered. Vol/Vol setup with no tone. Extremely 'in your face'. A bit much overall. I had the neck pickup wired to a 270k ish pot and the bridge wired to a higher value like 450k.
Well, when i redid the wiring config, I went with a vol/tone and used one of the ceramic .033 caps that come in LPs from Gibson.
I was not thinking about it, and now the 498T is seeing that 275k pot, which honestly, is closer to what they ship with in older Gibson models, like what my studio had (300k).
I put an 'American Metal' Tele neck pickup in that is laying around for another build I haven't finished. (Beachcaster/driftwood)
These pickups works surprisingly well together, in that the volumes are not crazy imbalanced to a high degree. The 498T still gooses it just a bit, but not overwemingly so.
This combination works well for fun, high mid hitting rock rhythms and lead.
The lower value pots tame the extra intense high-mid nature the 498T can have sometimes, along with the .033 cap to focus it in a bit/tame them from a direct connection as it was before. High-mids and organic, can scream with harmonics.
A very fun tele overall for this sound - which is like a vintage rock/metal.
It's neat to find a wiring/pickup combination that balances like this with the 498T, as it can be a struggle in general. I figured a neck pickup would not be able to do it without it being a mini-humbucker/rail style or something, but it works pretty well.